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"The data set takes the form of a Microsoft SQL Server MDF file. Once you have created your EBS volume and attached it to your Windows EC2 instance, you can access the data using SQL Server Enterprise Manager or SQL Server Management Studio. The SDSS makes use of stored procedures, user defined functions, and a spatial indexing library, so porting it to another database would be a fairly complex undertaking."
Amazon Web Services Blog: New Public Data Set: Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset. I was pretty psyched about this data until I got to that bit. Please imagine G.O.B.’s voice as I say “Come on!”
